Standing Up In The Milky Way

"May you feel all the wonder of those who came before you and none of the fear" Guadalupe (she/they) you can call me Lupe 29yo chicana geophysics and planetary science student. Planetarian. Science Communicator. Educator I write and do art about space. I’m also a Lesbian 🏳️‍🌈

[neilarmstrong]

This isn’t a regular science blog it’s a cool science blog 😎 and the occasional museum gift shop aesthetic blog

Here are some of my other blogs if you’re interested:

@seaslugsapphic - general fandom/random trash blog. Currently very into Cbs Ghosts but also The Untamed (2019), Star Wars, Star Trek, Drag Race, ofmd, wwdits, Marble Hornets, McElroy’s, Animal Crossing, etc. (I post here a LOT)

@jonewsom - Joanna Newsom fan blog

@quailbirds - art inspo blog

@quailoftheyear - kind of a cottagecore and nature aesthetic blog. Feel good content for me

@ghosthuddle - spooky aesthetic blog, liminal dreamcore type stuff

I’ve got an Etsy shop for ghosts fanmerch

Header gif made by @tranquilitybase11 !

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[squid-star]

saturn.

[partywithponies]

One of the most annoying genres of people on the internet are people who act like they believe science is one single monolithic thing. Like, you'll see an article saying something like "scientists studying the movement of tectonic plates", and then in the comments there'll be several smug people saying "smh why are scientists doing this instead of finding a cure for cancer", like. Why would a geologist be doing that.

[spaceexp]

Crescent Venus next to Crescent Moon

[neilarmstrong]

I need to just accept that I’m not going to read project Hail Mary and go watch the movie

[thevaultoftheatomicspaceage]

Admiral Grace Hopper with a PDP-11, Washington DC, 1978

[myjetpack]

My latest cartoon for New Scientist

[afemalesebastian]

"Sewing is a gateway drug to thinking through complex problems. It seems really simple; culturally, we make it women's work. Let me tell you: real sewing at any kind of level of proficiency is a bloody magic trick. Sewing, like mold making, involves mental frames that require one to think inside out and backwards. It requires one to work on an order of operations that is often taking into account the reverse. It's a really, really important skill, and if you learn how to sew, you're mostly on your way to carpentry and welding and sheet metal work. I'm not kidding: these are planar forms meeting under rules and conditions. And if you can make a sleeve work, I swear to God, you could build a house."

--Adam Savage

[neilarmstrong]

I know he didn’t mean it that way but it is really unfortunate how he framed it as unfortunate that it’s made women’s work

[neilarmstrong]

A very well meaning mutual sent me audio of the Apollo 1 fire… which I’ve never heard before because I’ve always avoided it. Avoided it enough to not be sure if it’s real. … but either way I kinda wanna throw up

[neilarmstrong]

“i know you like spooky stories and I know you like space! Check this out!” I opened up that message thinking it was gonna be about the Black Knight satellite or something. Nope. Listen to some of your childhood heroes die horribly in a fire!!!!!

[neilarmstrong]

A very well meaning mutual sent me audio of the Apollo 1 fire… which I’ve never heard before because I’ve always avoided it. Avoided it enough to not be sure if it’s real. … but either way I kinda wanna throw up

[thepastisalreadywritten]

𝗛𝗔𝗣𝗣𝗬 𝗕𝗜𝗥𝗧𝗛𝗗𝗔𝗬, 𝗛𝗨𝗬𝗚𝗘𝗡𝗦! 🔭

On this day in 1629, Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens was born in The Hague, Netherlands.

He is known for pioneering the wave theory of light and discovering the true structure of Saturn’s rings and one of its moons.

Huygens improved telescopes, invented the pendulum clock and advanced the study of dynamics, especially in rotating bodies and pendulum motion.

He also joined the French Academy of Sciences and exchanged ideas with Pascal, Leibniz, and Newton.

Huygens favored mechanical explanations and challenged Newton’s theory of gravity.

Although many overlooked his work during his lifetime, scientists later recognized his principle of secondary wave fronts as a key contribution to modern optics and physics.

His legacy continues to influence science today.

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Christiaan Huygens, Lord of Zeelhem, FRS (14 April 1629 – 8 July 1695) was a Dutch mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and inventor who is regarded as a key figure in the Scientific Revolution.

[neilarmstrong]

A question I have for people who think the moon landing is fake because it was beneficial for the US to claim we went to the moon, and in the same breath say it was too difficult to do with the technology of the time, but ALSO say that the fact that we have’nt gone back is evidence that it was fake in the first place….. if it was so easy to fake than wouldn’t the fact we haven’t faked going back, show that their are other, very real world circumstances behind that???

[sissiarte]

We will always choose Earth / Moon Joy

[cyberpainterofficial]

Motion

From the "Encoded Universe" series.

Acrylic paint on canvas, 70x70 cm. Created in 2026

For more art visit cyberpainter.art

[without-ado]

Artemis II Launch: April 1st 2026

l Time l NASA Artemis ‖

[atreidespacito]

[atreidespacito]

[sophsun1]

How can I disprove lies that are stamped with an official seaI? That will be all, Mr Mulder. You can deny all the things I have seen, all the things I have discovered but not for much longer. 'Cause too many others know what's happening out there.

The X-Files – 1.10: Fallen Angel